Annonced quite some time this awesome collaboration was announced with the release of "Stop / Begin Again" and an accompanying Meat Beat Manifesto Remix shortly after. To be honest I hoped for a little more than a two track release to follow, but well.

The history of both is most likely well known, reaching quite far back in time. Up until 1984 Eric Random regularly went on tour and guested with Cabaret Voltaire, Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder produced / guested on his releases as well.

Eric Random, who disappeared years from music making but started again pure electronically in 2014 provides all of the music; midtempo electro tracks with enough space left for Mal's voice to take advantage. The singer here sounds like the mid-80's Cabaret Voltaire singer, cool but distant. Sadly his vocals supplement the tracks a little too much instead of adding some contrasts. A little more advantage and dynamics would not have hurted in my opion and the cheekily titled "One Way No Replay" sounds a little ironic after repeated listening.

Hopefully this is only a test for more to come, perhaps with some more risks taken in the mix.